Charles Golding Barrett (5 May 1836, Colyton, Devon - 11 December 1904, London) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote The Lepidoptera of the British Islands : a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their preparatory states, habits, and localities. London : L. Reeve, 1893-1907.
Golding Barrett was responsible for the naming of 2 new genera of moths.
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